Home sharing on my macbook pro

I can't get home sharing to work with my macbook pro... The problem is that i want to link to my new apple TV and it just won't do it!
I can't find any advise that is working, anyone else figured this out before?

Just chiming in to say I have this problem, too.
My equipment: I have a MacBook Air and an iMac desktop computer.
I want to turn on sharing so I can share music libraried between the two machines.
I'm signed in to the same iTunes account on both machines.
I've updated both iTunes to version 11.1.1.
I've ensured my firewalls are not set up incorrectly according to Apple's instructions on the subject.
I've set up home sharing in iTunes preferences to share with no password required and I've tried to share both with and without the "update play counts" box ticked.
I've rebooted both computers twice each.
Nothing works. Nothing. Neither iTunes shows the other computer's library.
Please help!

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